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Appending Grid Units with the Blueprint CSS Framework

If you’re searching for a friendly guide that shows you how to utilize Blueprint CSS for building your own web page designs with a grid-based approach, then begin reading this series of articles now! In this this third part to a seven-part series, you will learn a new way to use the framework's background grid with the help of the append-x class.

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By: Alejandro Gervasio

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May 21, 2009

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In the segment that you just read, I created a sample (X)HTML file that illustrated how to use the generic “append-x” CSS classes to aggregate grid units to the columns of a web document. Naturally, the signature of the file in question would be incomplete if it didn't include the dependencies of the Blueprint CSS framework.

So here’s the full signature of this example file, this time including the corresponding Blueprint CSS’s style sheets:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<head>

<title>Using append class</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Using the append class</h1>

<h2>This section spans 24 cols</h2>

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</div>

<h2>This section spans 7 cols</h2>

</div>

<h2>This section spans 10 cols</h2>

</div>

<h2>This section spans 7 cols</h2>

</div>

<h2>This section spans 24 cols</h2>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Here you have it. Now the above (X)HTML file is complete. Regardless of its simplicity, it is helpful for demonstrating how the “append-x” CSS classes provided by Blueprint CSS can be used for manipulating grid units.

The following screen capture should give you a clearer idea of how the previous file is rendered on the browser:

And finally, with this last hands-on example I’m finishing this tutorial on appending grid units to columns of a web page. As usual, feel free to edit all of the code examples included in this article, so you can enhance your understanding of appending grid units with Blueprint CSS.

Final thoughts

Over this third part of the series, I provided you with a quick guide to using the generic “append-x” CSS classes that come included with Blueprint CSS to aggregate grid units to a selected column within a web document. As I explained before, it’s perfectly possible to append multiple units to the columns in question, so I suggest you use this feature more extensively when building your own web page layouts.

In the upcoming article, I’ll be discussing the use of another set of handy classes, called “prepend-x,” which will come in helpful for “pre-appending” a number of grid units to a given column.

That being said, here’s my final suggestion: don’t miss the next tutorial!

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